I'm angry at aerith she says that she loves cloud more than zack in the maiden that travels the earth. google it if you don't believe me.But she only loves cloud because he's like zack.Maybe after awhile in the lifestream together they will fall in love again.In crisis core they were such a good couple.SHE WROTE 89 LETTERS I MEAN GEEZ.In the end though i believe that aerith and zack should be together.What happens in the end we'll never know..

Umm...how can events in the past override events in the present or future? For example, in FF8, Rinoa was in love with Seifer before Squall. Does that mean Squall and Rinoa are "not canon" since Rinoa had a relationship with Seifer first?

Aeris doesn't love Cloud because he's like Zack as outlined in "Maiden" and "Case of the lifestream". That's two canon works that stated she "wubs" Cloud, not Zack. So yes, quit with your fantasy.

despite it being written by someone who was not directly part of the FF7 creative staff, The Maiden Who Travels The Planet is absolutely canon (official) as director Tetsuya Nomura had personally requested it under authorization of Square Enix. besides the novella, included in this resulting publication: FF7 Ultimania Omega are walkthroughs, story guides, character biographies and their cameos in sister games, previews, and interviews w/ the creative staff - all of w/c are official

most questions about whether or not the novel is canon just seem to be based on contradictions to the interpretations of FF7 held by supporters of rabid Cloud/Tifa, Zack/Aerith, Cloud/Aerith, & other misc. pairings out there!

It's not canon. It's been stated that it's not official more than once.

It being requested is just like the Halo: Legends anime about the 1337 Spartan.

While I do completely agree that Cloud and Aerith did have some sort of romantic connection in the original game, and I do agree that Cloud and Tifa did not have a strong one, I am a CloTi supporter and here is why.First of all, I am not qualified to assess the compatibility of relationships and people. I am not going to tell you how close Zack and Aerith were, nor how close Cloud and Aerith were, I am here to simply state the facts.

First of all, Zack and Aerith were in a relationship, this much is true, and Zack still loved Aerith when he died. Also, he is the type of person that after she died, he probably walked around all day in lifestream-heaven saying "how about a date?" over and over until he got one.

That's besides the point however, how they are doing in the afterlife I cannot say.

The point of the matter, the blunt truth, is that Aerith is dead.No matter how Cloud felt for her, she's dead, and thusly he cannot have a relationship with her.

This honestly leaves two options for Cloud, Tifa, the girl he lives with (who is very attractive) who seems to care a lot about him and calls him family, and has two adopted foster children with him, who also owns a home, which he operates his job out of, and cooks food for him. Or Yuffie, who honestly is about as un-lovable as a week old dead calf.

Cloud can either be in a relationship with Tifa, or no relationship at all. We will see.

i like aerith and zack. ok so i'm a cloti fan, but i really do think aerith and zack make a cute couple. cloud's not really on the sunshine side, and i think that would've bummed aerith's personality out. at least zack was more playful with aerith. say what you want about the pink ribbon/pink attire-it's-for-zack crap, but it is existent so obviously square must be trying to say something about aerith and zack right? and the whole maiden travel planet thing... i dont know i never read it. i sure as heck dont know if its reliable. but i do believe aerith was more of a big sister/mother to cloud. i know she wants to get to know the "real" cloud, but who knows? maybe that's the motherly side trying to get to him. she wants to know who he really is since she's his friend. i'm biased so i guess my opinion is invalid since ill always be a cloudxtifa fan. but overall, aerith and zack are meant to be together. they both died, yeah, but maybe that's their destiny talking. aerith and zack were meant to be with each other, even after death.

zack and aerith definently they had a better history look better together and i agree with the comments that yeah she wore pink for him waited all those years for him sent letter not even knowing if he got them and i do think at least half of the "attraction" with cloud was because like she said in the game he reminded her of zack

aerith loves zack and cloud loves tifa. i'd say those are the true couples of final fantasy vii. i know crisis core was made after final fantasy vii, but the fact of the matter is, it WAS made so therefore it should be deemed legitimate. but anyways, to prove my point, a lot of things that make up aerith's character has to do with zack: the ribbon in her hair, the flower girl persona, the pink outfit; it was all because of zack. and zack even hauled his butt to midgar after he was under hojo's sicko experiments for many, many years. sure there were some attractions between cloud and aerith, but cloud had that dual personality going on so i'm sure that had a lot of influence on aerith's feelings to begin with. i know that reason has been used so many times, but alas it is true! cloud adopted zack's personality, when in fact he was a real wussy in reality (no offense, cloud). and tifa had to sort out his problems and memories later on in the game. therefore, tifa became the one to really become cloud's woman. well, this thread is about aerith so yeah, that's my opinion: aerith and zack. also, can't we be happy for them? they're together again in the lifestream, reunited at last!

That's true, Vincent would have stayed with Lucrecia. I think Vincent and Yuffie would make a really cute couple as well .

I don't think I have participated in this thread so here goes...

I believe that Aerith trully loved Zack and Cloud just reminded her of Zack. In Crisis Core Zack and Aerith ended up loving each other, even when Zack was in Nibleheim they continued to mail each other. After Zack's death and Cloud getting Mako poisoned, Cloud ended up getting Zack's personality [persona] and well, continued to have his personality even when he met Aerith -- which somehow she already knew Zack was dead. Aerith somehow felt that Cloud reminded her of Zack and ended up building some feelings for him. That's what I think and in reality Aerith fell in love with Zack once again.